So I Had A Thought, And Another Story · 6:17pm Dec 11th, 2019
System Alert- Foreign vessel detected at close proximity; stealth is engaged.
Error: Maiden Voyage Phase 43920 disallows movement of this vessel.
Error: Maiden Voyage Phase 43920 disallows disengagement of stealth systems or violation of emission control protocol.
Solution discovered. Penetrating foreign vessel electronics… Done. Placing false detection in foreign vessel’s sensors… Done.
Maiden Voyage Phase 43920 complete.
Skipping Maiden Voyage Phase 43921: Data Insertion Test: Already Completed.
Launching Maiden Voyage Phase 43922: Travel to Wormhole.
Wormhole detected in-system. Performing warp jump… Done.
Foreign vessel has successfully avoided impact. Note: Thaumic energy penetration detected on foreign vessel.
The above appears in The Equestrian Starliner chap. 15. On its own, it's got very little implication- a little mystery. However, if combined with the information found in the alternate timeline of the same story, The First Equestrian Starliner, it's got some very powerful implications.
And of course, I'm feeling inspired at the moment, so I'm writing it. But...
The story of how magic was brought back to a world of ponies that lost it so long ago. What should it be named? The only thing I could think of was something like The Last Equestrian Starliner, though that wouldn't fit- this planet is in the (fairly early, but still) interstellar age, so they've got interplanetary craft galore, plus a few interstellar ships. Ideas?
... Interesting. When copying italicized text from Patreon, it shows in the editor as something like this:[i]S[/i][i]y[/i][i]s[/i][i]t[/i][i]e[/i][i]m[/i]
Which then prints more simply as System. Interesting... (Copying from GDocs results in only one italics block, rather than one for each letter)
Echoes of Magic?
A Legend Returned?
The Historian's Surprise?
You could also go for combinations: The Legend of Magic is actually not that horrible, but may make people think it's about finding Twilight's lost library and its immortal guardian (Grail Quest expy, anyone...?).
The Historian Returned, on the other hoof, doesn't work.
I was trying to figure out if there's a historical equivalent of what the animal kingdom has in its cryptids, but Google wanted to tell me about 'fake news' instead. Thanks. I've gotten rather annoyed by how poorly search engines tend to work these days...
Maybe one of these will give you some idea, but I don't personally think these fit that well. But, knowing how bad I am at inventing names, any sort of inspiration may help...
Also, how did you post this five hours from now?
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As in, post it in the future...?
It's distinctly possible that we're in different timezones. GMT+5 over here.
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Mine's either -4 or -5; I can never remember. Interesting to know that the site doesn't seem to localize...
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Yeah... Seems localized to me, but it very well could be just that I'm in the same timezone as the servers. Which, considering you first commented within around fifteen minutes of the post going up... Correction: 31 minutes, according to the timestamps.
Speaking of which, Just Like Magic of Old has actually been published... if you happen to be a patron, that is. The public first sights it around noon EST tomorrow, a Monday...
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Sadly I too am poor. I do appreciate your work, however.
Is that what you named the story? Sounds interesting, and fitting, if so.
The time to reply was truly coincidental. I get enough inbox filler as-is, so this site won't actually send me emails for anything the way I set things up. So that was actually when I happened to check back in. 0.o
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Speaking of which, I still need to come up with a suitable long description for its FimFic posting...